BENSON MEDAL

The 'Benson Medal' is a medal awarded by the Royal Society of Literature.
It was founded in 1916 by A. C. Benson who was a Fellow of the Society, to honour those who produce "meritorious works in poetry, fiction, history and ''belles-lettres''."^[1]
The medal is awarded at irregular intervals for life-long achievement. Recipients include:
Edmund Blunden,
Anita Desai,
Maureen Duffy¹,
E. M. Forster^[2],
Christopher Fry¹,
John Gawsworth^[3],
Nadine Gordimer,
Philip Larkin¹,
R. K. Narayan^[4]
A. L. Rowse^[5] ,
George Santayana¹,
Wole Soyinka^[6],
Lytton Strachey,
J. R. R. Tolkien¹, and
Helen Waddell.^[7]
Recent recipients include Ronald Blythe & Joan Winterkorn (both in 2006), Edward Upward (in 2005)¹, and David Sutton (in 2002)^[8]

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1. The Benson Medal from the website of the Royal Society of Literature
2. E. M. Forster from the Tiscali UK web portal
3. Two Kings of Redonda: M. P. Shiel and John Gawsworth, from a University of Iowa website
4. Narayan's author biography from the Penguin Books website
5. A. L. Rowse: Historian and friend - Obituary, a December 2001 ''Contemporary Review article via findarticles.com
6. Biography of Wole Soyinka from the website of the Echo Foundation
7. Biography of Helen Waddell, from the online Dictionary of Ulster Biography
8. University archivist wins top international prize, from the University of Reading website